URL Filtering Settings
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URL Filtering Settings

Select ObjectsSecurity ProfilesURL FilteringURL Filtering Settings to enforce safe search settings.
URL Filtering Settings
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Log container page only
Default: Enabled
Select this option to log only the URLs that match the content type that is specified. The firewall doesn’t log related web links during the session, such as advertisements and content links, which reduces the logging and memory load while still logging relevant URLs.
If you use proxies that mask the original IP address of the source, enable the HTTP Header Logging X-Forwarded-For option to preserve the original IP address of the user who initiate the web page request.
Enable Safe Search Enforcement
Default: Disabled
A URL filtering license is not required to use this feature.
Select this option to enforce strict safe search filtering.
Many search engines have a safe search setting that filters out adult images and videos in search query return traffic. When you select the setting to Enable Safe Search Enforcement, the firewall blocks search results if the end user is not using the strictest safe search settings in the search query. The firewall can enforce safe search for the following search providers: Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, and YouTube. This is a best-effort setting and is not guaranteed by the search providers to work with every website.
To use safe search enforcement you must enable this setting and then attach the URL filtering profile Security policy rule. The firewall will then block any matching search query return traffic that is not using the strictest safe search settings.
If you are performing a search on Yahoo Japan (yahoo.co.jp) while logged into your Yahoo account, the lock option for the search setting must also be enabled.
To prevent users from bypassing this feature by using other search providers, configure the URL filtering profile to block the search-engines category and then allow access to Bing, Google, Yahoo, Yandex, and YouTube.